Art

I went and checked the dictionary (Collins - very good!) And came up with this:

from Old French, from Larin "ars" (craftmanship)

doing a quick check for a Latin/English dictionary (myself not being a speaker of that much-useful toungue (heh) )

• ars : (artis) skill method, technique, conduct, character.
• ars : strategem/ science, art, skill/ craft.

Apparently the word came across to the English language round about the 13th century, which would have been while French was the language of diplomacy and such in England.

Also, the word art was the older English for the second person singular for of "to be". I am, Thou art, He is, etc.

This word comes from the old Anglo-Saxon "eart", which again has the same meaning. However, in Anglo-Saxon (Old English), it was a much more fun (well, I think fun :-) verb.

aom or beo, eart or bist, bidh (the last letter is an old letter we no longer have in english, a soft "d" sound, like a cross between d and th),

The whole lot can be found here:

http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/png/oe_clarkhall/b0350.png

under "wesan".

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